1. | The town, and tents, and navigable seas. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
2. | Abook of conducting navigable canals above or beneath the rivers which intersect them. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
3. | In Bengal, the Ganges, and several other great rivers, form a great number of navigable canals, in the same manner as the Nile does in Egypt. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
4. | When a navigable cut or canal has been once made, the management of it becomes quite simple and easy, and it is reducible to strict rule and method. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
5. | the land which it would water and would render the country fertile to supply food to the inhabitants, and would make navigable canals for mercantile purposes. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
6. | That the erection and maintenance of the public works which facilitate the commerce of any country, such as good roads, bridges, navigable canals, harbours, etc. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
7. | But those of a city, situated near either the sea-coast or the banks of a navigable river, are not necessarily confined to derive them from the country in their neighbourhood. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
8. | In China, and in several other governments of Asia, the executive power charges itself both with the reparation of the high-roads, and with the maintenance of the navigable canals. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
9. | What they have, therefore, is applied to the cultivation only of what is most fertile and most favourably situated, the land near the sea-shore, and along the banks of navigable rivers. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |